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waitmax

Section: User commands (1)
Updated: March 2008
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NAME

waitmax - allow program to run at most a specified amount of time  

SYNOPSIS

waitmax [-s signum] maxtime programm [ args...]

 

DESCRIPTION

waitmax executes program in a new process. If that process does not exit within at most maxtime seconds, it is being killed with signal TERM.

 

OPTIONS

-s, --signal signum
Use signum to kill the program instead of TERM.
-h, --help
Show short help and exit.
-V, --version
Show version and exit.

 

EXIT VALUES

255
The program has been signalled and terminated, because the time has elapsed, before the program has exited itself.
254
The program has exited neither by signal nor normally. Strange. This should never happen.
253
The program couldn't be executed.
128+signum
The program has terminated with signal signum before the time has elapsed (not by waitmax, but by itself or some other process).
1
Waitmax has been called with illegal options.

 

CREDITS

Many thanks to Jürgen Kuchenbecker, who had the idea of writing such a program and who assisted me in coding and testing it.

 

AUTHOR

waitmax was written by Mathias Kettner. The most current source code is located at http://mathias-kettner.de/waitmax.html.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT VALUES
CREDITS
AUTHOR

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